Posted by Robert Hill on December 10, 2014 at 15:58:24 user eclrh.
In Reply to: Re: Hanging in chains posted by Robert Hill on December 10, 2014 at 15:33:25:
Contrary to my previous reply, Treasure Island does mention hanging in chains, a couple of paragraphs after one of the mentions of Execution Dock:
"You say this cruise is bungled. Ah! By gum, if you could understand how bad it's bungled, you would see! We're that near the gibbet that my neck's stiff with thinking on it. You've seen 'em, maybe, hanged in chains, birds about 'em, seamen p'inting 'em out as they go down with the tide. 'Who's that?' says one. 'That! Why, that's John Silver. I knowed him well,' says another. And you can hear the chains a-jangle as you go about and reach for the other buoy. Now, that's about where we are, every mother's son of us, thanks to him, and Hands, and Anderson, and other ruination fools of you."